On January 18, 2023, an employee of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sagirova L. Sh. held an interactive museum lesson “Sh. Marjani is a Tatar scholar” for the students of Iske Ryazyap secondary school. The event devoted to the 205th anniversary of the birth of Shigabutdin Marjani took place in the “Memorial sign”.
A famous Tatar theologian, scholar, historian and ethnographer Sh. Marjani was born on January 16, 1818 in the village of Yabynchy of the present Atninsky district in the family of a mullah. Marjani received his primary education in the madrasah of his father. At the age of 17, he taught and wrote there a textbook of morphology of the Persian language. In 1838, Marjani went to Central Asia and studied for 11 years in the madrasah of Bukhara, Samarkand. After returning home in 1850, he was a mullah and mudarris in Kazan.
Marjani was accepted as a member of archeology, history and ethnography at Kazan University. During his life, he wrote more than 30 scientific works, 13 of which were published as separate books.
At the museum lesson, the students got the information about the life, works and scientific activities of the Tatar enlightener and saw an exhibition of books and a photo album.
17 schoolchildren attended the event.

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